In brief: Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel; Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust; With the End in Mind – review

Ruth Hogan’s compelling novel about mother-daughter relationships; Hedi Fried’s required reading about the Holocaust; and Kathryn Mannix on facing death

Aoife Abbey: ‘Being a doctor is not like in the movies’

The intensive care specialist who used to blog as the Secret Doctor on her candid new book about her experiences as a young trainee

Jeremy Hardy: a ferocious talent who radicalised radio comedy

Provocative and political, the stand-up – who has died aged 57 – shook up Radio 4 at a time when it was in danger of resembling a Rotary Club quiz night

Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped by Russell Brand review – a grown-up guru

After several false starts, the comedian and presenter’s worldview has become surprisingly mature

Giles Yeo: ‘Love your food but don’t eat quite as much of it as you want’

The obesity expert and author of Gene Eating on fad diets, the magic of miso and why he can’t say no to pork scratchings

Back to work blues? What we can learn from slackers

Our culture demonises those who don’t work – but maybe it’s time we were more like Homer Simpson and Jeffrey ‘The Dude’ Lebowski, writes Josh Cohen

The Truth About Fat by Anthony Warner review – what the Angry Chef hates

Fat-shaming and snooty diet advice are rightly targeted in this polemic. But Warner’s anger is oddly limited: why doesn’t he blame the food industry?

Top 10 books about insomnia

From history and fiction to philosophy and poetry, Marina Benjamin reveals the works that helped her understand an unsettlingly common problem

Insomnia by Marina Benjamin review – sleeplessness as resistance

Ranging from Penelope to Virginia Woolf, this study makes a case for restlessness and insomnia as acts of female rebellion

Can a sleepless night awaken creativity?

Famous insomniacs include William Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, Vladimir Nabokov and Marcel Proust so could there be a positive side to sleeplessness, asks Marina Benjamin